June 8, 2014

Everyone Loses in UK Election

Asked to summarize the mood after last year's round of U.K. political party conferences, Bloomberg's Westminster correspondent Rob Hutton said: "They all think they're going to lose the next election." Judging by the results of a by-election yesterday this collective pessimism, illogical as it may seem, was well-founded.

In that sense, she is following in the footsteps of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. Come September 2015, she could pip her ancestor at the post, beating her 63 years and seven months on the throne. more ››

Mr Miliband claims to be satisfied with Labour’s poll results; his supporters are not. In the local elections the party was badly damaged by UKIP, costing it several councils, including in the Essex bellwether constituency of... more ››